22 years ago I played one of my first performances in NYC with Robert Dennis, in the back room of the Pink Pony Cafe (photos below from 2001). We’re performing together again June 15th at Synesthesia Space in Brooklyn.
An evening of live experimental music and visuals. Performances by The Centaur and The Phoenix (Christian Lyon), sel-sync (Robert Dennis)& Chris Jordan(VJ), and eMBee(Michael Bierylo).
8pm-open
8:30pm-The Centaur and The Phoenix (Christian Lyon)
9:30pm-sel-sync (Robert Dennis)/Chris Jordan (VJ)
10:30pm-eMBee(Michael Bierylo)
sel-sync
When sel-sync was very young, his parents would sometimes marvel at casual remarks he’d make, and say that his way of thinking and speaking was something only a much older person should have. But now that sel-sync has finally reached the age his folks were referring to back then, he feels more 17 than he ever did when he was really was 17. “You’re only young once,” sel-sync likes to say, “But you can be immature for ever.”
Music and recording were always important to sel-sync. Confidence was however in much shorter supply, so the prevailing assumption was “never gonna happen.” But then one day, someone happened to point out that, “Well, shit bro — All you gotta do to want to!” That was the key that tightened the roller skates, and he’s been wearing out knee pads ever since.
sel-sync’s style is classified as Uglient — combining ambient, industrial, electronica, found-sound, and academic electronics with brushstrokes inspired from a certain delight in techno, house, dub, breakbeat, and related expressions of celebration. All this, delivered fresh to you in an improvised never-the-same-twice presentation.
Among sel-sync’s most cherished performance compliments:
“It was 20 minutes into your set before I realized that you were already playing.”
And
“When you started doing your thing, I closed my eyes and I started seeing movies.”
The most helpful advice sel-sync ever received was:
“Don’t worry about it. Sometimes it’s your duty to clear the room.”
Photos from the Pink Pony performance with Robert (sel-sync), NYC 2001
